John the Baptist at the Jordan preached the coming of the Lord

Baptizing everyone who would believe

Among the crowd that gathered, they're a watching from the shore

I'd imagine there were scribes and Pharisees

I can see John pointing toward Jerusalem that day, to the place of temple sacrifice

Saying through the years those lambs have never washed our sins away

But hope is here, behold the Lamb of God



-Chorus-

Put out the fire, here comes the glory

Your sacrifice is not as worthy

He's come to die, to make us holy

We've found the perfect lamb

Put out the fire



The smoke up at the temple sent a message to the world, that every sin of man would have a price

Daily as the priest prepared an offering for the Lord, the purist of all lambs would have to die

But when John saw the promise walking down ol' Jordan's banks

The answer to the cries of all the lost

He knew up at the temple, things were soon about the change, the altar would forever be the cross



-Chorus-



He was prophesied to rise out of the seed of Abraham

Coming by a virgin down in lowly Bethlehem

The one who angels worshipped since before the world began

Has stepped into the Jordan as the spotless lamb



-Chorus x2-



Your sacrifice is not as worthy

We've found the perfect lamb, put out the fire

We've found the perfect lamb, we've found the Great I Am

We've found the perfect lamb

Put out the fire